Wiley: Transforming Anthropology: Table of Contents

Awakening to (the Anthropology of) Race

Brendane A. Tynes — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 92-93, October 2023.

From Savage to Negro: A Religion Scholar's Reflections

Marla Frederick — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 83-84, October 2023.

From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896–1954—Twenty‐Five Years Later

Bertin M. Louis Jr. — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 85-86, October 2023.

The Learning Is in the Contradictions: Lee D. Baker and the Complexities of Race and Racism in Anthropology

Bianca C. Williams — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 87-89, October 2023.

From Savage to Negro: Nuancing Anthropology's Colonial Legacy and Inciting Change

Alexis Ligon Holloway — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 94-95, October 2023.

From Savage to Negro: The Only Required Text

Tracie Canada — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 90-91, October 2023.

The Gamble and the Game: Reflections on Writing From Savage to Negro

Lee D. Baker — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 96-99, October 2023.

Some Concluding Thoughts from Outgoing Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) President

Bertin M. Louis Jr. — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 81-82, October 2023.

They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria. Daniel E. Agbiboa, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xxii +266 pp. (Cloth US$100.00)

Sarah Muir — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 152-153, October 2023.

Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence. Traci C. West. New York: New York University Press, 2019. 336 pp. (Cloth US$99.00; Paper US$35.00).

Khytie K. Brown — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 155-156, October 2023.

Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education. Bianca Williams, Dian Squire, and Frank Tuitt, eds. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2021. 362 pp. (Cloth US$95.00; Paper US$26.95; E‐Book US$26.95)

Amanda Walker Johnson — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 151-152, October 2023.

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century. Charles King. New York: Anchor Books, 2020. xii + 431 pp. (Paper US$16.00; Cloth US$27.00; E‐Book US$14.00)

Ajanet S. Rountree — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 150-151, October 2023.

Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica: Seven Miles of Sandy Beach. A. Lynn Bolles. Latham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. vii + 157 pp. (Cloth US$95.00; E‐Book US$45.00)

Ramon K. Lee — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 153-155, October 2023.

Style Guide for Authors

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 157-158, October 2023.

Issue Information

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Transforming Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 79-80, October 2023.

Playing with Origins: Racial Self‐Making and Embodying History in Togolese Capoeira

Celina de Sá — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Abstract

This article discusses how contemporary expressive cultural projects in Lomé, Togo, highlight practices of racial self-making emerging from urban African contexts through a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians in colonial Brazil. This specific case analyzes Nukunu, the country's first capoeira group, and their ideological constructions of self, people, and historical time. Through capoeira—as a practice that I suggest makes interventions into these three spheres—Togolese martial artists creatively leverage the historical ties across the Black Atlantic as ideological and embodied resources for facing the particular challenges of twenty-first-century neocolonial structures. By analyzing Nukunu's views on their own racial subjectivity as an extended history of racial oppression, as well as a reenactment of the Ewe ethnic group's origin story, I argue that Togolese martial artists radically reframe notions of self, peoplehood, and historical time through enacting and performing racialized diasporic forms.

Fabulous Transactions: Hair Braiding in a Jamaican Resort Salon

Sylviane Ngandu‐Kalenga Greensword — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Abstract

This article focuses on the commodification of Jamaican Blackness and associated images through institutionalized hair-care services. Drawing on the notion of fabulousness (the unapologetic performance of Black feminine beauty), I present findings from ethnographic research conducted in the hair-braiding salon of a resort in Ocho Rios. I detail how Jamaican Blackness unfolds differently depending on the consumer's demographic category: white tourists, Black tourists, and local customers. I also draw on salon dynamics to unpack the transformative power the salon holds in (1) validating and decolonizing Black beauty and femininity via what I call fabulous hairstyles, (2) normalizing Blackness for non-Black tourists, (3) normalizing Blackness for African American tourists, and (4) creating a space where local Black women may consume resort services with the same dignity and quality of customer service as the Western tourists.

Centering Indigenous Approaches for a Better Cultural Resource Management: Lessons from the Dakota Access Pipeline

Phyllis S. Johnson — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Abstract

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has been one of the most nationally publicized of all protested pipelines in the United States. Since protests began at Standing Rock in November 2016, injustices to the natural and cultural environment inflicted by its construction have been scrutinized by the public, the media, archaeologists, and perhaps most of all, by Tribal nations residing in this area and throughout the United States. In this article, I focus specifically on the ways that the cultural resource management (CRM) process was manipulated and abused to benefit the monetary goals of Dakota Access, LLC and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) over the interests and needs of Indigenous peoples. Following this discussion, I propose foregrounding the suggestions of Tribal nations through greater collaboration with these groups and changes to the archaeological legislation, both of which will lead to greater transparency and inclusivity in CRM.

You Have Never Lived a Day Outside of Your Body: Engaging Racialized and Gendered Positionality in Ethnographic Research

Jamaal Muwwakkil — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:47:21 -0700

Abstract

Anthropology's well-known history of racist and colonial practices continues to inform which bodies go (un)marked with regard to researcher and researched subjectivities, with consequences for methodology and analysis. The imagined unmarked body of the researcher in the ethnographic context disallows consideration of any interaction between their subject position, its attendant histories, and how researchers interact with the community under study. And when the researcher's positionality is made explicit, it is rare to find discussions of how the researcher's positionality informed how and what they could observe. This article argues that overtly engaging, not just noting, research positionality in ethnographic texts illuminates underexplored, analytically rich, and pedagogically valuable aspects of the ethnographic process. By highlighting three ethnographic encounters as a Black male ethnographer of young white conservative students, this article explores some of the benefits and challenges of engaging researcher positionality, and how doing so benefited the ethnographic process. This article contains references to sexual assault and sexual violence.